The thing that excites me about the startup world is that you know never know what’s around the corner. One day, it seems like everything is going great; the next day, your world is falling apart. You are on your own. You must make every decision on your own.

No one knows the right answer at first. It seems like everyone is trying to give advice about what makes a startup. Sure, there are some general tips that can be applied to any business, but each startup is in a different context. The strange thing is that even with all the best advice in the world, you can still fail. However, you can’t be scared. You just have to do, execute, and iterate.

In this strange world, nothing is as structured as it seems. Every time I listen to founders talk about how their company got started, the story always starts off by saying they really didn’t know what they were doing at the beginning. At the end the speech, you don’t still don’t know why some ideas work and some don’t. In a sense, they feel the same way. For example, YouTube went through mainly iterations before they got something right. Paypal went through many models before hitting it big. And Facebook, well, it just worked. The stories all seem strange and not very structured.

If you have an idea that solves a legitimate problem, just run with it. This first iteration probably won’t work, but the second or third might. You never know until you try!

I think this song applies well. And yes, this is also the Macbook Air commercial song.

“I’m a new soul I came to this strange world hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take. But since I came here, Felt the joy and the fear, Finding myself making every possible mistake.”

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